I am putting together the latest edition of A6, which did not demand urgency due to a relatively calm week in the world outside of Gaza and Ukraine.
Many of the Substacks I follow publish Friday discussion threads, which are fantastic avenues for community building. I decided to publish this early in the morning on Saturday in Texas to include my readers from other parts of the world.
Please add your thoughts to the comment section below, and I’ll do my best to answer and facilitate a positive conversation.
Here are some general questions to get the conversation moving.
Have you experienced a conversation about Israel-Gaza that created a small positive step forward? If so, where was it? Was it on social media?
What is a pet topic of yours that A6 has completely ignored?
Hong Kong seems set to pass a strict national security law. What are some possible knock-on effects?
How can the U.S. restrict Israeli access to weapons without freaking out other partners like Taiwan, the Philippines or Japan?
Have you encountered any projects that offer a small degree of encouragement regarding climate change?
Feel free to add your thoughts unrelated to these prompts.
I hope you’re having a nice weekend!
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I see an ongoing narrative that the current congressional push for forced divesture of TikTok is intertwined with the Israel-Palestine conflict, that TT has become a platform where pro-Palestine content dominate, not only angering pro-Jewish forces in the US but also showing the political and propaganda potential of TT. To what extent do you think this narrative is true?
Great idea for a Saturday morning. A topic I haven’t seen you cover: With the fall of Roe v Wade and restrictions on abortion in many US states, are other countries with at least a generation or two of reproductive freedom experiencing a similar phase of restriction? So often, waves of ideology are not restricted to one country, but we usually hear this as only a U.S. story.